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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01552	Sylua syluarum: or A naturall historie In ten centuries. VVritten by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the authors death, by VVilliam Rawley Doctor of Diuinitie, late his Lordships chaplaine.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1627 (1627)	STC 1168; ESTC S106909	303,154	346

Causes of Putrefaction Exp. 1. pag. 220 Of Bodies vnperfectly Mixt. Exp. 1. ibid. Of Concoction and Crudity Exp. 1. ibid. Of Alterations which may be called Maiors Exp. 1. pag. 221 Of Bodies Liquesiable and Not Liquesiable Exp. 1. pag. 222 Of Bodies Fragile and Tough Exp. 1. ibid. Of the two Kindes of Pneumaticalls in Bodies Exp. 1. pag. 223 Of Concretion and Dissolution of Bodies Exp. 1. ibid. Of Bodies Hard and Soft Exp. 1. ibid. Of Bodies Ductile and Tensile Exp. 1. pag. 224 Of Seuerall Passions of Matter and Characters of Bodies Exp. 1. ibid. Of Induration by Sympathy Exp. 1. pag. 225 Of Honey and Sugar Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Finer fort of Base Metalls Exp. 1. ibid. Of certaine Cements and Quarries Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Altering of Colours in Haires and Feathers Exp. 1. pag. 226 Of the Differences of Liuing Creatures Male and Female Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Comparatiue Magnitude of Liuing Creatures Exp. 1. pag. 227 Of Producing Fruit without Coare or Stone Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Melioration of Tobacco Exp. 1. ibid. Of Seuerall Heats working the same Effects Exp. 1. pag. 228 Of Swelling and Dilatation in Boiling Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Dulcoration of Fruits Exp. 1. ibid. Of Flesh Edible and not Edible Exp. 1. pag. 229 Of the Salamander Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Cotrary Operations of Time vpon Fruits and Liquours Exp. 1. pag. 230 Of Blowes and Bruises Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Orris Root Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Compression of Liquours Exp. 1. ibid. Of the working of Water vpon Aire Contiguous Exp. 1. pag. 231 Of the Nature of Aire Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Eyes and sight Exp. 7. ibid. Of the Colour of the Sea or other Water Exp. 1. pag. 233 Of Shell-fish Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Right Side and the Left Exp. 1. ibid. Of Frictions Exp. 1. ibid. Of Globes appearing flat at distance Exp. 1. pag. 234 Of Shadowes Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Rowling and Breaking of the Seat Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Dulcoration of Salt Water Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Returne of Saltnesse in Pits by the Sea-Shoare Exp. 1. ibid. Of Attraction by Similitude of Substance Exp. 1. pag. 235 Of Attraction Exper. I. ibid. Of Heat vnder Earth Exp. 1. ibid. Of Flying in the Aire Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Scarlet Dye Exp. 1. ibid. Of Maleficiating Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Rise of Liquours or Powders by meanes of Flame Exp. 1. pag. 236 Of the Influences of the Moone Exp. 8. ibid. Of Vinegar Exp. 1. pag. 238 Of Creatures that sleepe all Winter Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Generating of Creatures by Copulation and by Putrefaction Exp. 1. ibid. Century X. OF the Transmission and Influx of Immateriate Vertues and the Force of Imagination whereof there be Experiments Monitory three In all Exp. 11. pag. 241 Of Emission of Spirits in Vapour or Exhalation Odour-like Exp. 26. pag. 246 Of Emissions of Spirituall Species which affect the Senses Exp. 1. pag. 250 Of Emission of Immateriate Vertues from the Mindes and Spirits of Men by Affections Imagination or other Impressions Exp. 21. ibid. Of the Secret Vertue of Sympathy and Antipathy Exp. 39. pag. 257 Of Secret Vertues and Properties Exp. 1. pag. 265 Of the Generall Sympathy of Mens Spirits Exp. 1. pag. 266 Faults escaped in the Printing PAge 6. line 28. latter reade later p. 18 l. 10. Quilt r. Quilts p. 32 l. 3y Amalgama r. Amalagma p. 93. l. 35 lose r. lost p. 122 l. 3 Coppies r. Coppice p. 139. on the Top of the Lease wanteth part of the Title Rudiments of Plants and of the Exerscences of Plants or Super-Plants p. 222 l. 5 in redundat FINIS NEW ATLANTIS A VVorke vnfinished VVritten by the Right Honourable FRANCIS Lord Verulam Viscount St. Alban VERITAS TEMPORE PATET OCCVLTA PS To the Reader THis Fable my Lord deuised to the end that He might exhibite therein a Modell or Description of a Colledge instituted for the Interpreting of Nature and the Producing of Great and Marueilous Works for the Benefit of Men Vnder the Name of Salomons House or the Colledge of the Sixe Dayes Works And euen so farre his Lordship hath proceeded us to finish that Part. Certainely the Modell is more Vast and High then can possibly be imitated in all things Notwithstanding most Things therin are within Mens Power to effect His Lordship thought also in this present Fable to haue composed a Frame of Lawes or of the best State or Mould of a Common-wealth But foreseeing it would be a long VVorke his Desire of Collecting the Naturall History diuerted him which He preferred many degrees before it This VVorke of the New Atlantis as much as concerneth the English Edition his Lordship designed for this Place In regard it hath so neare Affinity in one Part of it with the Preceding Naturall History W Rawley NEW ATLANTIS WEE sayled from Peru wher wee had continued by the space of one whole yeare for China and Iapan by the South Sea taking with vs Victuals for twelue Moneths And had good Windes from the East though soft and weake for fiue Moneths space and more But then the Winde came about and setled in the West for many dayes so as we could make little or no way and were sometimes in purpose to turne back But then againe ther arose Strong and Great Windes from the South with a Point East which carried vs vp for all that we could doe towards the North By which time our Victualls failed vs though we had made good spare of them So that finding our selues in the Midst of the greatest Wildernesse of Waters in the World without Victuall we gaue our Selues for lost Men and prepared for Death Yet we did lift vp our Harts and Voices to GOD aboue who sheweth his Wonders in the Deepe Beseeching him of his Mercy that as in the Beginning He discouered the Face of the Deepe and brought forth Dry-Land So he would now discouer Land to vs that we mought not perish And it came to passe that the next Day about Euening we saw within a Kenning before vs towards the North as it were thick Cloudes which did put vs in some hope of Land Knowing how that part of the South Sea was vtterly vnknowne And might haue Islands or Continents that hithertoo were not come to light Wherefore we bent our Course thither wher we saw the Appearance of Land all that night And in the Dawning of the next Day we might plainly discerne that it was a Land Flatt to our sight and full of Boscage which made it shew the more Darke And after an Houre and a halfs Sayling we entred into a good Hauen being the Port of a faire Citty Not great indeed but well built and that gaue a pleasant view from the Sea And we thinking euery Minute long till we were on Land came close to the Shore and offred to land But straightwayes we saw diuers of the People with Bastons in their Hands as it were forbidding vs to land Yet

it selfe and there were found in it a Booke and a Letter Both written in fine Parchment and wrapped in Sindons of Linnen The Booke conteined all the Canonicall Bookes of the Old and New Testament according as you haue them For we know well what the Churches with you receiue And the Apocalypse it selfe And Some other Bookes of the New Testament which were not at that time written were neuerthelesse in the Booke And for the Letter it was in these words IBartholomew a Seruant of the Highest and Apostle of IESVS CHRIST was warned by an Angell that appeared to me in a vision of Glory that I should commit this Arke to the flouds of the Sea Therefore I doe testifie and declare vnto that People where GOD shall ordaine this Ark to come to Land that in the same day is come vnto them Saluation and Peace and Good Will from the Father and from the LORD IESVS There was also in both these writings as well the Booke as the Letter wrought a great Miracle Conforme to that of the Apostles in the Originall Gift of Tongues For there being at that time in this Land Hebrewes Persians and Indians besides the Natiues euery one redd vpon the Booke and Letter as if they had been written in his owne Language And thus was this Land saued from Infidelity as the Remaine of the Old World was from Water by an Ark through the Apostolicall and Miraculous Euangelisme of Saint Bartholomew And here hee paused and a Messenger came and called him from vs. So this was all that passed in that Conference The next Day the same Gouernour came againe to vs immediately after Dinner and excused himselfe saying That the Day before he was called from vs somewhat abruptly but now he would make vs amends and spend time with vs if we held his Company and Conference agreeable Wee answered That wee held it so agreeable and pleasing to vs as wee forgot both Dangers past and Feares to come for the time wee heard him speake And that wee thought an Houre spent with him was worth Yeares of our former life He bowed himselfe a little to vs and after we were set againe he said Well the Questions are on your part One of our Number said after a little Pause That there was a Matter wee were no lesse desirous to know then fearefull to aske least wee might presume too farre But encouraged by his rare Humanity towards vs that could scarce thinke our selues Strangers being his vowed and professed Seruants We would take the Hardines to propound it Humbly beseeching him if hee thought it not fit to bee answered that hee would pardon it though he reiected it Wee said VVee well obserued those his words which hee formerly spake that this happy Island wher we now stood was knowne to few and yet knew must of the Nations of the World which we found to be true considering they had the Languages of Europe and knew much of our State and Businesse And yet we in Europe notwithstanding all the remote Discoueries and Nauigations of this last Age neuer heard any of the least Inkling or Glimse of this Island This we found wonderfull strange For that all Nations haue Enterknowledge one of another either by Voyage into Forraigne Parts or by Strangers that come to them And though the Trauailer into a Forreine Countrey doth commonly know more by the Eye then he that stayeth at home can by relation of the Trauailer Yet both wayes suffice to make a mutuall Knowledge in some degree on both parts But for this Island wee neuer heard tell of any Shipp of theirs that had been Seene to arriue vpon any Shore of Europe No nor of either the East or West Indies nor yet of any Shipp of any other part of the World that had made returne from them And yet the Maruell rested not in this For the Situation of it as his Lordship said in the secret Conclaue of such a vast Sea mought cause it But then that they should haue Knowledge of the Languages Bookes Affaires of those that lye such a distance from them it was a thing wee could not tell what to make of For that it seemed to vs a condition and Proprietie of Diuine Powers and Beings to be hidden and vnseene to others and yet to haue others open and as in a light to them At this speach the Gouernour gaue a gracious smile and sayd That we did well to aske pardon for this Question we now asked For that it imported as if we thought this Land a Land of Magicians that sent forth Spirits of the Ayre into all parts to bring them Newes and Intelligence of other Countries It was answered by vs all in all possible humblenes but yet with a Countenance taking knowledge that we knew he spake it but merrily That we were apt enough to think ther was some what supernaturall in this Island but yet rather as Angelicall then Magicall But to let his Lordship know truely what it was that made vs tender and doubtful to aske this Question it was not any such conceit but because we remembred he had giuen a Touch in his former Speach that this Land had Lawes of Secrecy touching Strangers To this he said You remember it aright And therefore in that I shall say to you I must reserue some particulars which it is not lawfull for mee to reueale but there will bee enough left to giue you satisfaction You shall vnderstand that which perhaps you will scarce think credible that about three thousand Yeares agoe or somewhat more the Nauigation of the World specially for remote Voyages was greater then at this Day Doe not thinke with your selues that I know not how much it is encreased with you within these sixescore Years I know it well And yet I say greater then than now Whether it was that the Example of the Ark that saued the Remnant of Men from the vniuersall Deluge gaue Men confidence to aduenture vpon the Waters Or what it was but such is the Truth The Phoeniceans and specially the Tyrians had great Fleetes So had the Carthaginians their Colony which is yet further West Toward the East the Shipping of Egypt and of Palestina was likewise great China also and the great Atlantis that you call America which haue now but Iunks and Canoa's abounded then in tall Ships This Island as appeareth by faithfull Registers of those times had then fifteene hundred strong Ships of great content Of all this there is with you sparing Memory or none But we haue large Knowledge thereof At that time this Land was knowne and frequented by the Shipps and Vessells of all the Nations before named And as it commeth to passe they had many times Men of other Countries that were no Saylers that came with them As Persians Chaldeans Arabians So as almost all Nations of Might and Fame resorted hither Of whom we haue some Stirps and little Tribes with vs at this day And for our owne Ships they

went sundry Voyages as well to your Streights which you call the Pillars of Hercules As to other parts in the Atlantique and Mediterrane Seas As to Paguin which is the same with Cambaline and Quinzy vpon the Orientall Seas as farre as to the Borders of the East Tartary At the same time and an Age after or more the Inhabitants of the great Atlantis did flourish For though the Narration and Description which is made by a great Man with you that the Descendents of Neptune planted there and of the Magnificent Temple Pallace Citie and Hill And the manifold streames of goody Nauigable Riuers which as so many Chaines enuironed the same Site and Temple And the seuerall Degrees of Ascent wherby Men did climb vp to the same as if it bad bin a Scala Caeli be all Poetical Fabulous Yet so much is true that the said Country of Atlantis As well that of Peru then Called Coya as that of Mexico then named Tyrambel were mighty proud Kingdomes in Armes Shipping and Riches So Mighty as at one time or at least within the space of 10. Yeares they both made two great Expeditions They of Tirambel through the Atlantique to the Mediterrane Sea and they of Coya through the South Sea vpon this our Island And for the former of these which was into Europe the same Authour amongst you as it seemeth had some relation from the Egyptian Priest whom he citeth For assuredly such a thing ther wa● But whether it were the Ancient Athenians that had the glory of the Repulse and Resistance of those Forces I can say nothing But certaine it is there neuer came backe either Ship or M●r from that Voyage Neither had the other Voyage of those of Coya vpon vs had better fortune if they had not met with Enemies of greater clemency For the King of this Island by name Altabin a wife Man and a great Warrier Knowing well both his owne strength and that of his Enemies handled the matter so as he cut off their Land-Forces from their Ships and encoyled both their Nauy and their Campe with a greater Power then theirs both by Sea and Land And compelled them to render themselues without striking stroke And after they were at his Mercy contenting himselfe onely with their Oath that they should no more beare Armes against him dismissed them all in safety But the Diuine Reuenge ouertooke not long after those proud Enterprises For within lesse then the space of one Hundred Yeares the Great Atlantis was vtterly lost and destroyed Not by a great Earthquake as your Man saith For that whole Tract is little subiect to Earthquakes But by a particular Deluge or Inundation Those Countries hauing at this Day farr greater Riuers and farr higher Mountaines to poure downe waters then any part of the Old World But it is true that the same Inundation was not deepe Not past fourty foote in most places from the Ground So that although it destroyed Man and Beast generally yet some few wild Inhabitants of the Wood escaped Birds also were saued by flying to the high Trees and Woods For as for Men although they had Buildings in many places higher then the Depth of the Water Yet that Inundation though it were shallow had a long Continuance whereby they of the Vale that were not drowned perished for want of Food and other things necessary So as maruaile you not at the thin Population of America nor at the Rudenesse and Ignorance of the People For you must account your Inhabitants of America as a young People Younger a thousand yeares at the least then the rest of the World For that ther was so much time betweene the Vniuersall Floud and their Particular Inundation For the poore Remnant of Humane Seed which remained in their Mountaines Peopled the Countrey againe slowly by little and little And being simple and sauage People Not like Noah and his Sonnes which was the chiefe Family of the Earth they were not able to leaue Letters Arts and Ciuillity to their Posterity And hauing likewise in their Mountanous Habitations beene vsed in respect of the Extreame Cold of those Regions to cloath themselues with the Skinns of Tygers Beares and great Hairy Goates that they haue in those Parts When after they came downe into the Valley and found the Intollerable Heates which are there and knew no meanes of lighter Apparell they were forced to beginn the Custome of Going Naked which continueth at this day Onely they take great pride and delight in the Feathers of Birds And this also they tooke from those their Auncestours of the Mountaines who were inuited vnto it by the infinite Flights of Birdes that came vp to the high Grounds while the Waters stood below So you see by this maine Accident of Time wee lost our Traffique with the Americans with whom of all others in regard they lay nearest to vs wee had most Commerce As for the other Parts of the World it is most manifest that in the Ages following whether it were in respect of Warres or by a naturall Reuolution of Time Nauigation did euery wher greatly decay And specially farre Voyages the rather by the vse of Gallies and such Vessells as could hardly brooke the Ocean were altogether left and omitted So then that part of Entercourse which could bee from other Nations to Sayle to vs you see how it hath long since ceased Except it were by some rare Accident as this of yours But now of the Cessation of that other Part of Entercourse which mought be by our Sayling to other Nations I must yeeld you some other Cause For I cannot say if I shall say truely but our Shipping for Number Strength Marriners Pylots and all things that appertaine to Nauigation is as great as euer And therefore why we should sit at home I shall now giue you an account by it selfe And it will draw nearer to giue you satisfaction to your principall Question There raigned in this Island about 1900. yeares agoe a King whose memory of all others we most adore Not Superstitiously but as Diuine Instrument though a Mortall Man His Name was Solamona And we esteeme him as the Law-giuer of our Nation This King had a large heart inscrutable for good And was wholly bent to make his kingdome and People Happy He therefore taking into Consideration how sufficient and substantiue this Land was to maintaine it self without any ayd at all of the Forrainer Being 5600. Miles in circuit and of rare Fertility of Soyle in the greatest part thereof And finding also the Shipping of this Country mought bee plentifully set on worke both by Fishing and by Transportations from Port to Port and likewise by Sayling vnto some small Islands that are not farre from vs and are vnder the Crowne and Lawes of this State And recalling into his Memory the happy and flourishing Estate wherein this Land then was So as it mought bee a thousand wayes altered to the worse but scarse any one way to